Tag: Health
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Is Your EHR Making You Less Efficient?
The following is a guest post by Michael Gleeson, Senior VP of Product Strategy for Arcadia Solutions. Michael Gleeson Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have a reputation for slowing down practices and increasing time, cost and overall productivity of a physician’s office or hospital system.
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First Edition: April 22, 2013
Today’s headlines include reports ranging from how state leaders are dealing with the consequences of rejecting the health law’s Medicaid expansion to how pending immigration reform proposals could ease the nation’s physician shortage.
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EHR and HIT News for April 20th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two customer acquisition articles. The first, is from Halfpenny Technologies on their selection by Orange Accountable Care. The second article, from HealthMEDX on their selection by Riverside Health Systems. Orange Accountable Care Partners with Halfpenny Technologies to help integrate their Care Community Halfpenny Technologies was selected by Orange Accountable…
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Providers ‘struggling’ to document Meaningful Use attestation
Preliminary results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Meaningful Use audits indicate that providers are having a lot of trouble substantiating what they’ve attested to, according to Robert Anthony, deputy director of the Health IT Initiatives Group at CMS’ Office of e-Health Standards and Services. read more
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HIStalk Interviews Keith Figlioli, SVP Healthcare Informatics, Premier
Keith Figlioli is senior vice president of healthcare informatics of Premier of Charlotte, NC. Give me some background about yourself and your job. I’m the senior vice president of healthcare informatics at Premier
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Using Project Management to Turn the Key on CPOE Success
While more hospitals are implementing CPOE systems, adoption rates still could be higher. HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal talks with UMC Health System CIO Bill Eubanks about the transition to CPOE, effective strategies that made it happen, and challenges the organization faced along the way. According to research from the San Jose, Calif.-based Global Industry…
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EHR and HIT News for April 18th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes partnership news from the Premier Health Alliance who has partnered with Phytel to automate population health services, as well as a news update from Acclaim Healthcare. Premier healthcare alliance, Phytel Helping Providers Efficiently Coordinate Ambulatory Care and Better Engage Patients to Keep People Healthy The Premier healthcare alliance has partnered with…
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Mostashari: Vendor fee ‘assures’ funding for Meaningful Use program
National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari defended a potential user fee on electronic health record vendors that was included as part of President Obama's 2014 proposed budget. read more
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EHR and HIT News for April 17th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two partnership items, the first from Health Solutions Plus and Context4 Healthcare allowing shared customers to streamline processes and the second from Creative Computing Solutions , and Socrata who have announced a strategic partnership that they claim will help federal agencies leverage data to make informed mission and program…
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Lawmakers call for ‘reboot’ of Meaningful Use program
Six Republican Senators have formally requested that U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide a written plan to address how the agency is implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. read more